Séance
Innovative Cinema Short, DE 2009, Farbe, 9 min., dOF
Diagonale 2024
Director, Script: Christoph Hochhäusler
Camera: Bernhard Keller
Editor: Anja Conrad
Production Design: Beatrice Schultz
Production: Heimatfilm
Co-production: MACT Productions (FR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (DE), ARTE, BKM
In a matter-of-fact tone, the voiceover reports on humankind’s final days on Earth and the establishment of a colony on the moon. And, indeed, on the far side, “protected from the sight of the former homeland.” Created as part of the Deutschland 09, project, Séance is a meditation on the power of the images we carry within us: as a past that haunts us with personal, and also collective memories. A German dystopia.